Landsat Calibration/Validation Team members recognized with NASA's Robert H. Goddard Award for Science

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Remote Sensing

Three SPIE Fellows and four SPIE Members were recently awarded the Robert H. Goddard Award for Science for their participation on the Landsat 8 Calibration/Validation Team (CVT), which contributed to the characterization, calibration, and performance understanding of the Landsat 8 sensors.

Jun. 10, 2014

Since 1972, Landsat satellites have been amassing information about Earth's land cover to better understand big issues like water use, carbon stocks, and global crop production. The Landsat Calibration/Validation Team ensures that Landsat data users can be confident that measurements made day-to-day, year-to-year, and Landsat sensor-to-sensor are comparable.

SPIE-affiliated team members were:

SPIE Fellow Kurtis Thome, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

SPIE Fellow John Schott, Rochester Institute of Technology

SPIE Fellow Stuart Biggar, University of Arizona

SPIE Senior Member Jeff Czapla-Myers, University of Arizona

SPIE Member Phil Dabney, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

SPIE Member Raviv Levy, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

SPIE Student Member Frank Pesta, South Dakota State University

The team, managed by Brian Markham, a longtime Landsat calibration scientist at Goddard, included 52 scientists from Goddard, the U.S. Geological Survey, Ball Aerospace & Technology Corp., South Dakota State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, and the Jet Propulsion Lab.